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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1887-06-02
Moses Taylor, Original Orthograph

II Moses Taylor was peculiar about
writing bis name, 1t may be snrmised that
be had his own methods OF spelling the
words of the English language. His sys-
TEN was simply phonetic. Apropos Of the
idiosyncracy, the same gentleman told
another anecdote which have never seen
in print, although it has familiar sound.
Mr.. Taylor, in the earlier days OF his bus
mess career, was careful to close the safe
every evening and take the key up home
with him. One morning he was too sick
to come down town. He sent for the
book keeper, gave HIM the key and told
him the safe had been locked on the COM
bination asia" The bookeeper went to
the office and tried to open the safe, but
the door refused to bulge. In vain were
the turns made over and over again on the
letters Of the oriental continent The
book keeper began to fancy that he had
misunderstood the talismanic word given
him by the sick man, Suddenly it flashed
upon him that perhaps Mr.. Taylor's con-
ception of its orthography was not as
orthordox as that laid down in the gazett-
eer Accordingly he hastened up town
again and inquired if he had understood
the word Alright.
Certainly, Ashley, Of course.
The book keeper say that he had to
practice little diplomacy now to get at
his employers combination Of letters.
"But, Mr.. Taylor there are several ways
OF spelling Asia, How do you spell it?"
"Why, AS II L, TO be sure And if that
don't spell Ashley, what 10 thunder does il
,pell2"
The book keeper politely conceded with
lim, retired and rushed down to the Office
where business bad been much suspended |
Turing his absence few turns OF the
wrist soon opened the door aud the great
ioose of Moses Taylor & Co. once more
resumed the lively tenor OF its way.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1887-06-02

A certain S5a,hern gentleman caused
bis house TO be connected With bis Office
by an acoustic telephone without. AZ Il
happened. the knowledge Of his two col
ored servants - Uncle Ephrsim aud Aunt
Sukey.
In the evening Of the day ia which the
telephone had been introduced, Uncle
Ephrsim, assisted by Aunt Sukey. was
engaged 10 lighting fire 10 the unighiei
library, when voice strangely distant,
yet near, called:
Uncle Ephraim, Uncle Ephraim.
Whats dat2" cried Epbraim, letting
the tongs fall TO the floor with crash, as
ho trembliney rose to his feet with Aunt
wildly clinging to him
"Uncle Ephraim," called the mysteri
ons voice.
The old people fastened their eyes upon
the opposite corner Of the room from which
the sound evidently came, and whittier all
the darkness OF the room seemed gathered.
II Aunt Sukey had not been with him,
Ephraim would certainly have fled from the
room; but, before her. he felt that he must
play bold part, or forever lose his
authority over her. Accordingly he gath
cred himself up. aud said as solemnly as
bis quaking voice would permit;
'Dosn be afraid, Sukey il am de angel
,f de Lord, and his business is wild me,
act wild you"
"G'long viii you, Ephraim; do you
,'pose an angel would speak wild an old
iigger like You? Use more than reckon
lat 1t am de debil
Aunt Sukey." called the strange voice,
N instant later.
= II am de angel, after all, " cried Aunt
sukey, exutautly, an he's speaking wild
ne; do you hear dat, EpLralm2'
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1887-06-02

This singular question was put to Sam
Jones, the evangelist, by one Of his wealthy
church members in Georgia, whose cot r
ton crop yielded him some S20,e00 last
year. "Where is heayen?" said the rich
planter.
"1'll tell you where heaven is. said
Mr.. Jones. III you go down to the vii
lage and buy fifty dollars worth Of grocer
les, put them in wagon and take them
to the poor widow on the hillside, who
has three OF her children sick. She ~
poor and is member OF our church.
Take with you nurse and some one TO
cook their meals. When you get there
read Psalm xii, and knecl by her side
and pray. Then you will find out where
heaven is.
Next day, as tho evangelist was walking
through the village, he met the same
wealthy planter, his face beaming With
Joy. He spoke after this manner; Mr..
Jones, I've found ont where heaven is.
went and did as you directed me. We
took up the wagon load OF groceries. and
the widow was completely overcome wit
joy; could not express ber tbankfuIness
As read her the 23i psalm, my heart was
filled with thankfulness to God, aud when
| prayed, the angel came down and !
thought | was nearer heaven than ! bad
ever been before 10 my life. | left the
nurse and the cook IN the humble dwell
ing. aud promised her she should never
suffer as long as could help her.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1887-06-02

The senior class 10 English Of the Cali
FORMS State University have prepared
list OF 90 Of the beet books OF the world 40
published 10 cheap editions, aud find
tha. not one Of them costs over Thirty
cents, while the entire 50 may be bad for
SJ,22 IL is probable that We do not snf-
iiciently appreciate the intensity Of the 10
telIectual energy Of our time which has
created this result What is demanded,
generally ands some way 10 come about.
The newspaper is nov Ia hundred hBnde
whore, bali a century ago il was single
handed. The paper which the reader
holds 10 bis hands. 70 years ago was read
by less than one tenth az many people as
read Il nov, The reading public is rsr-
idly multiplying and year by yesr is e
maoding better material The public de-
mand is imperative. What is wanted, will
be supplied
The American people DO more readinZ
aBd more thiDkipg than any people 90 the
globe. This coaotry Is the home Of in-
dndfisl aDd commercial energy; bu. il is
fssi iski1g advanced position % economic
a. rlioos worked out by thinking sDd
acting 10 90 operation. The priaciple Is
settled l. y the experiment Oar political
lssiitnliyps. and our indas,rial o. gauiza
ilon 10 this eountrv. mat i8eyitablg be
built on what soiks sell, rather than on
dreams 81 yisiolaries. ~bB never touched
practical politics sud ~ho never gol isio
she "a ia oi business life.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1887-06-02

An old farmer living near Chamh hers-
burg, Pa, was telling q member Of the
Sixth Michigan Cavalry how be took tho
invasion Of the State by Lees army said
be:
Wed gone TO bed, aud heard our dog
bark. Says TO the old woman, Gays |,
there's somebody moving around or that
dog wouldn't bark that way, Go to sleep,
you old fool says the old woman. Says
/, | won't do il / tell ye, cfitter or
somethin' or other has got into the garden,
or that dog wouldn't keep mp his barking.
Wall. he barked and barked. aud | finally
went to sleep, aud left him barking. |
'spected the brindled COW would get in
and eat all the eabbagcs up, but | was
sort o'mad at the old woman and didn't
keer ! woke up about in the morning,
and that dog was barking yet
"Wbat at?'
That's what / wanted TO know |
knowed it must be suthln or other, and
went out to see.
well, what was it2"
"Js about 30 900 rebels had been
stringin' along past the house during the
night, and that's what allied Bose. |
knowed that dog had his eyes on critters
or somebody"
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1887-06-02

Brooklyn matchmaking firm is con
rtruetiug clock TO be fifty feet In dame
ter, the face OF which will be on q level
with the ground, while the machinery
which werks il will be underground out Of
sight but so arranged that everything will
run smoothly Tor eight days. The figures
on the dial plate will be OF flowers u
various colors aud species, but each figure
differing from the others The pivot 10
the center OF the dial on which the hands
turn is TO be water jet throwing spray
all around and over the flowers to Keep
them fresh The mechanism OF the clock
is nov being constructed in Boston.
A Chinaman is stated TO have discoy.
cred that cast III horse shoes make good
cutters steel. The wrought iron Of the
shoes having been constantly hammered
acquires the hardness OF steel. II IL also
Supposed thst the animal beat OF the boof
bias sometliag TO do with it. The metal
is said to be good for the manufacture Of
knives and sword blades.
O1e Of the novelties Of the forthcoming
4 iican exhibition at London il 10 be
q eiila made Of straw timber. that is 10 say
VI ,iraw compressed into artificial wood
The ,i'la will be two aud ball stories
higl VI artistic design, and both FIRE
proof sud water proof Every part of Il
walis, fouudaiions, Aoors, roofing, chin
ueys lis 10 be made OF straw
Cn codile skin, when properly treated.
forms most durable aod effective bindiag
thst rivals the iaest morocco 10 sppesr
aHee The ekin is Dow, therefore. eifsn
sirsly used. bat there is nothing ne~ iu
this. since hundreds Of years ago macy oi
the Esypti,us. wbo did not stafe 10 The
general reverence of this debizen Of the
Nile, were accustomed TO utilizs their
crocodile shin for covering their rolls OF
pspyrus
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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1887-06-02

cNICTG6- 60Cf lsI II6 q IPICIFIC RIII WAY

~ rvsss. II i,s caiYsl yeso roe rvis,snn % prfn
etfkl last ~ Chicago and frnisreous Hines at
rssis Il Issts wsss NeIh and sppih.css IA the
snls igae nal lis Hns in O. a. ineDfkI system
vhieh inrt sna ~ travel sna rsr Ia sstAar
clrs<ta5 a tssg wes a the ATtAtie sNd fseinc
80 ts.ek fssha iasn khs and hrzhfhss fncndH CIT
essa las.Gt usissA. Issss. leefss osssssa heiiIas
sBd leet fsksi. ~ IIllaetsg hsNgntoi1 tNsct4ins.
A.sAiaetaA fa.fNs .t NtAm~x, ttsk slsosA West Lib
--y, lss cssY. Dee koas,. Isaia1aaA, sn,afsat AZ
nfle kn8ssfsle UfnSQh Hats hrs trafFv and
CouaN rle~s II fo-A GAiisIia. TFfrtsn. b. JaseFh.
G4sas4sA ssi Kansas Clfs, ~ hirssa.a Ie&ferNeffh
sa4 ttckls in EsAskal lert iaaa kirteagslis ard
~ rk4i, ~ hiunnsefsi N3isstosn, IN hAsata, sni
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1887-06-02

can beat any alarm clock ever invented
waking the family mp 10 tic morrinr.
Give il fair show and j, can smash
more dishes than the most industrious ser
want sirl in the eCuatry
II can fall down ofienrr aud With less
pfoyocaiion than The mos, expert iumbler
10 the circus ring,
II can make more genuine fuss over 4
simple brass pin Than IL mother would
make over broken back.
II can choke iselfblack 10 the face with
greater ease than the most accomplished
wretch that ever was executed.
II can keep aiamily ina constant tor.
moil from morning TIL uighi aud night
ull morniug Without once yarying ils
tune
II can be relied upon 10 sleep perfectly
all day when iis father Is down town, aud
cry persisten,ls II night when be is par
ticularly sleepy.
II may be the naugh,iesl, dirliesi. ngli-
est, most fretfu baby in the world bat you
can never make It's mother b, lieye IT, aud
you better mol try IL
II can be a charming aud model infant
when no one Is around but when visitors
are present il can exhibit more bad temper
than both Of It's parents together
II can brighten up house better than
all the furniture ever made; make sweeter
music than The finest orchestra ever organ.
ized; iil larger place ip its parents
breasts than they knew they had, and when
ii goes away 1t can cause greater blank
than all the rest Of tho world put To-
gether.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1887-06-02

III appears 10 bea very simple matter, :
| told The old people, after I bad heard
their story, mo douht the excitement.
the intense emotion over the news. stimu
lated such an action of the heart
that the tender sack that held the
ball was brokea, Tho weight Of the ball
bad undoubtedly brought !, already al
mos, into contact with the heart il sank at
once upon H. and The end came
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1887-06-02

Dry toast "a toast st temperance meet.
ing.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-01
Bee Notes,

Bees are most easily as we'll as more
proitably managed in a good movable
frame hive than in the old gum log Oh
box hives of so years ago.
Those who have bees which have failed
to swarm, should make them increase by
the mode of artificial swarming, which
is a much easier and safer mode than to
allow them to swarm in the o~ld-fashioned
way.
Always make your purchases of queens
which have been raised on strong, full
stocks, as we'll from reliable breeders
whoedo not rear their queens in nucleus
hives, as these are short-lived and give
| poor satisfaction.
To insure good results from a given
number of bees one must keep them
strong in number and this is only accom-
plished in seeing well to their having a
good prolific queen. Herein lies one of
the secrets of successful Bookkeeping.
The Italian queens are more prolific
than the common native queens, as well
as more amiable and easier found among
the many thousand of bees IN a good
stock. The Italian and Cyprian, bees are
by far the best and most industrious
workers, often working or the blooms of
the red clover and aany cher honey
producing plants, which our native bees
do not.
1t is a fact that a good prolific queen
will lay 500, 900 eggs in 1870 days. Each
egg to produce a worker bee, must be
properly nursed and matured in the cells
of the smaller size, and those producing
drones are reared in the larger cells
called drone brood, they being the male
bees. All eggs which produce worker
bees are female in sex, and can be con-
verted into royal queens at any time be-
fore they are seven days old, provided
always the stock have lost their mother
queen. This special labor is allotted to
the young worker bees, not over four
teen days old, which are properly called
the nurse bees" and really perform
quite all the labor inside of the hive.
after which they take the place Of the
older bees which are hourly and daily
passing away. What a world of thought
as well as of science, there is to be found
in the proper management of the ever
busy little bees. SD. NJ. Hicks.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-01
Useful Hints.

Glaze the bottom crust of fruit pies
with the white of egg, and they will not
be soggy.
To restore meat that is slightly tainted
boil it for a few minutes with some
pieces of antiseptic charcoal, freshly
burnt.
The whites of three eggs well beaten,
without any sugar, makes a nice f~rosting
for a pudding. Spread Immediately be-
fore carrying to the table.
A delicious breakfast cake is made
with two cupfuls of milk, two cupfuls of.
flour, and two we'll beaten eggs, to be
baked in scalloped dishes or patti pans.
1t may be worth knowing that water
in which three or four onions have been
boiled, applied with a gliding brush to
the frames of pictures and chimney
glasses, will prevent flies from lighting
on them and will not injure the frames.
A formula for dose of sachet powder
is as follows: Three ounces powdered
starch, n unce powdered orris, three
drops oil of patchouli, ten drops oil Of
French geranium, five drops ottar of
rose, five drops essence of bergamot.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-01
Recipes

BUTTERMILK BREAD.-One quart OF
sour milk, one pint of meal, three eggs,
a tablespoonful of butter, a pinch OF
soda, and a little salt. Bike in a buttered
pan.
EGG BREAD.-One quart of meal, one
pint of milk, four eggs, one tablespoonful
of melted butter, one teaspoonful Of salt,
two teaspoonfuls of baking powder; bake
in pans in a slow oven.
BARLEY SoUP.-Steep three large
spoonfuls of barley in a pint of water, to
which a piece of carbonate of soda the
size of a pea has been added, over night.
In the morning, strain, add a teaspoonful
of salt, two tablespoonful of stale bread
crumbs, and three quarts of boiling
water. Boil four hours, and before TAX
ing up add a tablespoonful of butter and
a little chopped parsley.
To Cook PoTAToEs.-Do not peel po-
tatoes and thus losethe best part of them
but wash clean and steam with their
coats on. When done, remove the skin
neatly, place in a dish, spread butter
over them beautifully, sprinkle with salt
and pepper. Set in an oven a few
minutes, tnen pour over them a liberal
quantity of sweet cream, hot, but not
boiling. Serve Immediately.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-01
An Esauin.amr Demfnom.

"Slnce remote ages, from Innuit father
to son, has been handed down this le-
gend-and as my father told it to me,
so [ tell it again to you-that whose
ever boldly lays down his goods and
weapons, and bravely turning his back
on the outer world, fees fasting into
waste and desert places, to him as3a
friend shall Tornarsuk come. He shall
become a Kivigtok. The STRONGEST bear,
the largest whale, the most ferocious
walrus shall fall victims to his lance.
The reindeer shall not distance him in
speed, and even the great umimak that
once roamed over these valleys shall fall
an easy prey to him. He shall swim like
the seal, he shall run as the deer. he
shall climb as the umimak, and no harm
shall come to him. He shall live to such
age that even a Greenlander cannot
count the generations which shall come
and go in his time. And more, he shall
know all things both on sea and land, in
the fair inland country and on the barren
coast. He shall know the speech of
birds, and beast, and fish, and that
which they can do he also shall be able
do. And the coming and going Of his
enemy he shall know, so hat he can
scare the seal which he would strike or
the deer he would shoot. That which
can do against his enemy, the same
can he do for his friend. Bat to see
these wonders, to have these powers, it
is needful with brave heart, telling none
md speaking no word, for the Innuit
hunter to go forth fasting and fearing
not. In this way only can one be a
klyigtok. THE Century.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-01
Why He q Shot.

All through the war, says the Inter
Ocean, it was very difficult to make the
volunteer soldiers understand that they
were guilty Of any ofense when they left
the army and slipped off fora two weeks
visit at home. They laughed at the idea
that this wa desertion. But after two
or three experiments of this kinda man
becamea little reckless. If he could
stay two weeks at home, why not stay
two months, and if he could stay.two
months, why not six monthsa One poor
fellow reasoned in this way and con-
WINGED himself that he was doing his
dutylike 4 man because he was working
to support his mother. When he was
arrested as a deserter he laughed over
the matter, and he laughed at the fears
of the boys when he WAS returned to the
camp under guard. Bntone night there
came an order that this man be shot the
next morning at 10 o'clock. This cleared
the mists and doubts from his mind and
he said to his old comrades that from
the minute the order was read to him
he was a new man, but that not before
that minute had he realized that he had
been guilty of any crime. He was shot
the next day In presence Of his brigade,
and died like a soldier.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-01
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

Recent Investigations have dispelled
the common belief that freezing purifes
water.
Unusually low water in Lake Con-
stance has been bringing to light many
valuable and interesting relics of the
prehistoric lake-dwellers.
An African arrow-poison, Strophan-
thus, proves to be a powerful tonic in
diseases of the heart, and the prediction
is made that it will supersede digitalis.
It's properties were first brought to notice
by Prof. Fraser of Edinburgh University.
A late observer, Mr.. E. Sanford, re-
ports having made a common snail carry
a load of two and a quarter ounces up a
perpendicular wall, its own weight being
but a quarter of an ounce. A snail
weighing a third of an ounce drew a load
OF seventfineunces on a horizontal table,
and supported four ounces while crawl
ing on the ceiling. 1t even climbed a
thread with another snail on its back.
The increasing difficulty of adding to
the worlds stock of knowledge 'of the
Arctic regions is turning the attention
of explorers to the more distant but
fresher fields for research lying about the
South Pole. An Antarctic expedition is
-
now being fitted out by Baron Nordensk-
jold, and is expected to leave Sweden in
the autumn for an absence of eighteen
months; while it is probable that during
the next few years several other expedi-
tons will be attracted to the unknown
seas of the Southern Hemisphere.
M. Mandin, a distinguished naturalist,
tells the French Academy of Science that
severe earthquake phenomena only occur
in districts destitute of forest growth
which might serve to discharge the at
m%ospheric electricity. Earthquake phe-
nomena he therefore attributes to the re-
sistance offered by the earth's crust to
the electric ity generated in she globe
itself. Whether these facts accord with
those in association with American ex-
periences, we are not prepared to state.
Recent discoveries have settled the
vexed question of the former existence |
of lions in Australia. Bones from the
Wellington Caves, New South Wales,
are regarded by Professor Owen, of the
British Museum, as being those of a mar
supial or pouch-bearing lion, fully equal
in size to the existing African species.
These remains were found in connection
with those Of the Tasmanian Tiger and
Devil. Quite c~uriousIy, Pro-
fessor Owen macy years ago expressed
the conviction that certain ancient herb
animals of Australia must have
been kept in check by a co-existent race
of lions.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-01
Worms that Eat Steel Rails.

The existence has just been discovered
OF a detestable microbe which feeds upon
iron with as much gluttony as the phyl-
loxera upon the vine. Some time ago
the greatest CONSERVATION existed among
the engineers employed on the rail-
way at Hagen by the accidents occurring
always at the same place, proving that
some terrible defect must exist either
in the material or the construction of
the rails. The German Government di-
rected an inquiry to be made and a Com
mission of Surveillance to be formed for
the purpose of maintaining constant
watch at the spot where the accidents
of them attended with loss of
life-had occurred. 1t was not, how
eyer, until after six months had elapsed
u(fthe surface Of the rails appeared to
be coaeAded, as if by acid, to the extent
of 100 ys The rail was taken up and
broken, andwas perceived that it was
~ ouu ny d Till gray
worm, to whidA the qualification of
"~ralloveroas" W. assigned, and by
which name it is toy classed in natural
history. The worh is said to be two
centimetres in lengtfAand of the size of
the prong of a sill r fork in circum-
ference. 1t is of a lii gray color, and
on the head carries little glands
filed with a. corrosiv en, which
is elected every ten les upon the
iron. This liquid re- he iron soft
and spongy, and Of th Of rust, and
it is then greedily q p6ufa by the in
sect. There is no kaggef Jon, says
the official report of he commfs Non, Gin
the assertion that bis c@reatuf Or its
kind, is n of the most ~voracio nd,
it has devouaed thirty-si TO-
grammes of rail in a fortnight.n-
The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-01
When Jas,te MtIked the Coaes.

&
The daisy held her dainty cup
To catch the dew drops bright;
The bee had kissed the clover hobs,
And babe them all good night;
The katydid had tuned her song
Among the apple boughs,
And farther stretched the shadows long,
When jamie milked the cows
The swallows fitted here and there,
The bat had left his bower,
The primrose with a bashful air,
Enclosed her petaled flower,
The whippoorwill his plaintive tale
Proclaimed meath wooded boughs,
And twilight dropped her dusky veil,
While jamie MIXED the cows.
And Ben, the plow-boy, strolling by,
Comes through the open bars,
While softly in the western sky
Shine out the tranquil stars.
And while the corr blades whisper low,
Two lovers pledge their VOWS,
Amid the twilight's purple glow,
While jamie MIXED the cows.
y x X
a little cottage, snug and new,
With hop vines at the door;
The sunbeams, peeping softly through,
Lie dancing on the floor.
And when the first pale evening stars
Shine through the forest boughs,
Young farmer Ben, beside the bars,
Helps jamie milk the cows.
Helen Whitney Clarke.